A delighted Roundwood Park School team hold the senior cup which they won in the Harpenden heat of the Rotary Youth Speaks competition.
Beechwood Park School took the intermediate cup against particularly stiff competition.
Youth Speaks is a national competition which for many years has given youngsters experience in public speaking and, more recently, debating a subject of their own choice.
Both teams go forward to the district heat, to be held on a date yet to be decided.